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Comprehensive API Monitoring Solutions

Monitor critical private, public, and partner APIs. Set up multi-step API calls and verify response content, performance, and uptime for SOAP, REST, JSON, and XML web services.
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API Performance insights

Advanced Web API Monitoring for Optimal Performance

Whether you manage a few APIs or oversee a vast network of web services, stay ahead of potential issues with Dotcom-Monitor’s advanced Web API monitoring solutions.

Supported API Types

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REST (Representational State Transfer)

Uses standard HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE.

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SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

Heavily standardized and uses service interfaces to expose business logic.

DNS
GraphQL

Allows clients to request exactly the data they need, making it efficient for complex systems with many entities.

Multi-step API Monitoring

Multi-step API Monitoring goes beyond basic single response checks to cover the full spectrum of API interactions. This process often involves reusing IDs, tokens, and other variables across a series of requests, which may also require handling bearer token authentication or OAuth. Our Multi-step API Monitoring effectively manages diverse scenarios by evaluating responses in both JSON and XML formats, extracting key values, and smoothly crafting follow-up requests. This comprehensive approach ensures thorough performance validation throughout the entire sequence of API calls.

Supported API Communication Protocols

https
HTTP/HTTPS

The foundation of any data exchange on the Web and a protocol used for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML.

WebSocket
WebSocket

Provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.

Supported Data Format Standards

Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

Lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write, and easy for machines to parse and generate.

Data Retention
XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

A markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

Protocol Buffers

Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

Supported API Security Standards

Multi-Role Support
OAuth

An open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for Internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords.

Web Application
OpenID Connect

A simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol.

Customer Trust
JWT (JSON Web Tokens)

Compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties.

Monitoring Locations

Public Cloud
Public Internet Locations: Monitor your APIs from various global checkpoints to ensure worldwide availability and performance.

Private Agents:
Conduct monitoring from inside your firewall for enhanced security and internal performance insights by installing our Private Agents.

Postman

Postman Integration

Users can export Postman collections and use them within Dotcom-Monitor to automate testing and alerting processes. This integration allows for continuous monitoring and testing from various geographic locations, ensuring APIs perform optimally in real-world scenarios without a need to learn new tools.
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Insomnia Integration set up

Insomnia Integration

Integrating Insomnia with Dotcom-Monitor enhances API monitoring by combining Insomnia’s testing tools with Dotcom-Monitor’s global monitoring and alerts. This setup enables continuous, comprehensive testing across diverse locations, ensuring optimal API performance. By exporting Insomnia configurations to Dotcom-Monitor, teams automate workflows, quickly identifying and resolving issues.
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Proactive Alerts

  • Notifications: Receive immediate alerts through SMS, email, or integrated communication channels when performance thresholds are breached.
  • Issue Resolution: Quickly pinpoint problems and rectify them before they impact your users.
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Intuitive Dashboard

  • Adjust your monitoring dashboard to meet your specific needs. Instantly see the performance and availability of your API stack from around the world in real-time. Share public dashboards with your internal teams, customers, and partners.
  • Comprehensive Reporting: Access detailed reports to analyze trends and optimize API performance. Provide independent SLA reports on your API availability and performance.

Why Web API Monitoring Matters for Modern Businesses

In today’s interconnected digital landscape, APIs are the backbone of seamless communication between systems, applications, and services. Monitoring APIs is crucial to ensure consistent performance, reliability, and a superior user experience. Downtime or slow API responses can disrupt workflows, degrade customer satisfaction, and lead to lost revenue.

Proactive API monitoring helps businesses detect and resolve issues before they impact users, optimize performance to meet growing demands, and maintain the trust of partners and customers. By investing in robust API monitoring solutions, modern businesses can stay competitive and deliver uninterrupted services in an API-driven world.
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Web API Monitoring—Frequently Asked Questions

Below are some of the most common questions about web API monitoring. If you have additional questions, feel free to contact us.

API Monitoring ensures that APIs perform reliably, securely, and consistently. It helps detect issues such as downtime, slow responses, and errors, ensuring seamless application operation, a positive user experience, and operational efficiency.
Using a vast array of features like real-time alerts, multi-step API call setups, Postman integration, and SSL/Certificate checks, our platform offers comprehensive Web API monitoring, ensuring peak performance and reliability.
Setting up REST API monitoring with Dotcom-Monitor is simple. Configure API endpoints, specify HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), define expected responses, and create multi-step workflows for complex API interactions. Our platform handles bearer token authentication, OAuth, and other requirements seamlessly.
Yes, Dotcom-Monitor integrates seamlessly with Postman. Export your Postman collections into our platform to automate testing, monitor performance from global locations, and enhance your API workflow without learning new tools.
Dotcom-Monitor provides customizable alerts via email, SMS, and integrations with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. Set performance thresholds to receive immediate notifications when anomalies occur, ensuring swift issue resolution.
API uptime monitoring continuously checks API availability and performance from multiple global locations. If downtime or accessibility issues arise, instant alerts are triggered to allow for quick resolution, ensuring uninterrupted service.
APIs are the backbone of modern applications, facilitating seamless communication between systems. Consistent API performance prevents disruptions, enhances user satisfaction, and protects your business reputation from the impacts of slow or unreliable APIs.
OAuth 2.0 provides an industry-standard protocol for secure API authorization. Monitoring APIs with OAuth 2.0 ensures access is granted only to authenticated users and systems, preventing unauthorized usage and maintaining robust security.
Dotcom-Monitor differentiates itself with global synthetic monitoring, advanced multi-step API workflows, Postman integration, real-time performance tracking, and user-friendly dashboards. Its scalability and proactive alerting features cater to businesses of all sizes, ensuring optimal API performance.
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